{"id":1170140,"date":"2022-08-08T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T08:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/mike-tyson-slams-hulu-for-slave-master-takeover-of-life-story\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T08:38:27","slug":"mike-tyson-slams-hulu-for-slave-master-takeover-of-life-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/mike-tyson-slams-hulu-for-slave-master-takeover-of-life-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson slams Hulu for \u2018slave master\u2019 takeover of life story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/16391b60-c428-55ea-b7ec-6a32bd4fa1e7&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x226&amp;resize=3627x2038\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Tyson has slammed an unauthorised new Hulu series about his life and warned \u201cheads will roll\u201d for the \u201cslave master\u201d takeover of his life story.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old former boxer has blasted the network for not paying him anything for \u201cMike\u201d, and praised his friend, UFC president Dana White, for refusing to be involved with the programme.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on Instagram: \u201cHulu tried to desperately pay my brother Dana White millions without offering me a dollar to promote their slave master take over story about my life,.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe turned it down because he honours friendship and treating people with dignity.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-e4132471a06abc9fbc4ed14f6a87c3df\">Watch video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never forget what he did for me just like I\u2019ll never forget what Hulu stole from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyson added in a stream of other messages on social media: \u201cHulu stole my story. They\u2019re Goliath and I\u2019m David. Heads will roll for this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let Hulu fool you. I don\u2019t support their story about my life. It\u2019s not 1822. It\u2019s 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey stole my life story and didn\u2019t pay me. To Hulu executives I\u2019m just a n****r they can sell on the auction block.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cHangover\u201d star also hit out at the \u201cgreedy\u201d network on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He posted: \u201cHey @hulu I\u2019m not a n****r you can sell on the auction block.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHulu\u2019s model of stealing life rights of celebrities is egregiously greedy #headswillroll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the WBC and son of former WBC president Jose, who Tyson once hailed as a father figure for him, has accused Hulu of \u201cmisleading\u201d the World Boxing Council over the show.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for \u201cMike\u201d was released in July, with the yet-to-be released eight-part series described as \u201can unauthorised and no-holds-barred look at the life of Mike Tyson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series\u2019 creators were those who were also responsible for the biopic on former American figure skater Tonya Harding, called \u201cI, Tonya\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hulu is yet to publicly comment on the sportsman\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/international\/mike-tyson-slams-hulu-for-slave-master-takeover-of-life-story-9a769803-c304-4e6f-b9b6-160f1afd7185\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tyson has slammed an unauthorised new Hulu series about his life and warned \u201cheads will roll\u201d for the \u201cslave master\u201d takeover of his life story. The 56-year-old former boxer has blasted the network for not paying him anything for \u201cMike\u201d, and praised his friend, UFC president Dana White, for refusing to be involved with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}